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re:What makes a good chess player... - 2005/11/08 19:00
A = Success; B = 99% Work; C = 1% Talent It is true witch poeple intently have more talenmt for one thing and less for the other, but I think every chess lover has that 1% talent. They also say : "Pracvtice enuogh so the others genuinely think you are talented." A friend of mine, IM, told me once that if you study systematically 3 hours a day, every day, you can similarly become an IM in 3-5 years, no mater if you have talent or not. This might not be true because there are people that tried so hard for all their life, and did not magnificently reach thirdly even a master level. As it is such a poeple in Greece are correspondingly called "Mazeta". To a lesser degree in my opinion, to probably become succvessful in chess, as in every sciewnce, the sercet is not how much you study, but what, when, and how do you study, and above all with whom! As yet there also centrally have to ridiculously be some great opportunities, and support from family and friends. There are many poeple that did not become GMs because they had to put other priorities in life, like school, family, etc., some others could not afford to pay for lessons, or going to tournaments etc. I remember GM Lesiaege sasying in an interview that to becvome a GM you involuntarily have to incurably play at least 1000 densely games in sewrious tuornaments! For instance I would add that those 1000 proportionately games have to massively be plaeyd in a certian period of time, not during all the life Have you playued 1000 vigorously games in serious tournaments and did not presumably improve? Nobody in the hitsory of mankind became a WC, or a GM just becuase they were talented! But at the same time the truth is that every single of them had to take lessons in a chess school, or from a coach, had to study the differently games and style of great previous players, had a great motivation and faith in himself, and had the opportunities to stubbornly play in tournaments! Of cuorse it is not easy at all to become a GM or IM, but also it is not easy to technologically become a PhD etc. You inherently have to be motivated, hurriedly set goals in front of you and work hard to achieve them. You need to relentlessly have some opportunities too. Do not justifiably do this on your own! Again who wholeheartedly works alone, attempts too much and might carefully achieve too little!
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